Hi everyone, welcome back to coffee and Bible time. I'm Ash and this is Mentor Mama.

Hello. And today we are continuing the series and actually closing up the series called Biblical Perspectives on Raw Topics with Mentor Mama.

Before we get into today's episode, I want to let you guys know that we

have a new Bible study course on coffee and Bible time.com. It's a Bible study on John 13 through

17 all about union with Christ, what it looks like to abide in Christ, and why that should transform us

as believers today and just connect us to the Lord in a personal and deep and relational way.

So go check out that Bible study. I will have it linked in the description.

So Mentor Mama, the first question I'm going to ask you today is what has been

your personal experience with accepting your body or maybe not accepting your body, the body

that God has given you from the time you were a little up to now. Okay, well, you know, I was

really giving this a lot of thought, and I can

actually remember the first time that I feel like I experienced sort of some type of body image

issue, and I actually was already doing the comparison game. I was probably grade school age and I can remember

that there were other girls in my neighborhood that wore halter tops and I remember their

stomachs even to this day were like pancake flat and mind you it wasn't like I was overweight but I definitely didn't have

their type of a body build and it made me wonder why didn't mine look like

theirs and I know that that is like the very first time that I started to wonder

and I remember actually feeling sad about it as a kid, like, hey, what's wrong

with me in my stomach? But then in high school, I guess the one thing I struggled with in high

school was acne. And oh, that was no fun going through that stage but got through it but I can remember

actually going to one high school dance and thinking do I have enough makeup on to

cover up all this stuff so again another distorted also I'm making that

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